Commodities - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Feb 2010
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Products & services serve as commodities in reset economy

11 Mar 2011
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Opinion: Food Inflation Remains Stubbornly High in U.S. and Europe

13 Oct 2020
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Despite JPMorgan’s record spoofing fine, deterrence questions remain

12 Jul 2016
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Tesla’s Strategy Is Risky and Aggressive, but It Has Worked

16 May 2021
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Kominers’s Conundrums: Take a Crypto Break with Ancient Traders

12 Jun 2014
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The Brazil World Cup: Big Money for Billions of Eyeballs

25 Mar 2018
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When consumer packaged goods start acting like software

03 Dec 2015
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Brazil: The creaking champions

12 May 2023
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Photo credit: Auburn University Photo credit: Auburn University In 1970, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) took over a tiny treated-lumber business in Abbeville, Alabama, that was hovering near bankruptcy. Its owners, Rane's in-laws, had died suddenly in a car accident. Over... View Details

Keywords: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods; Wholesale Trade

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

opportunities in water, the only commodity that every human needs at least every three days, are extremely large. But even if you don’t choose water, make no mistake—the climate question is not an Aldrich academic nicety. It’s a fight for... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Boris Eykher (MBA 2009) and Ilya Chernilovskiy (MBA 2013) watched the 2015 global price slump in commodities with horror. Prices for commodities fell to their... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

23 Mar 2016
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Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish

plasma. “Now, what could you create out of that? So many medical products, which really could make a difference. “The thing that we’re trying to do is, on the margins, take a commodity business—growing salmon—and interact with... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Faculty Research Online

globalization of medical services? Q&A with Professor Tarun Khanna. Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5814.html. When Your Product Becomes a Commodity Like death and taxes, commoditization of your products is a given. Professor John Quelch... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Sep 2008
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Farming for Fuel

2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the minimum investment of $20,000 and 10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a potential hedge against the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Oct 2019
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Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa

While meeting with representatives of the Kenya Ports Authority at the Port of Mombasa, faculty members toured a bulk carrier ship off-loading grain commodities to Grain Bulk Handlers, one of the companies HBS faculty visited during the... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

18 May 2011
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Man with a Plan

the commodity wood segment. The Yella Fella character really came from the natural evolution of our advertising strategy. “Had you asked me in the mid-1980s if I envisioned playing a cowboy character in our commercials, I would never have... View Details

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